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Charlesbaudelaire Quotes

  1. seafoam* seafoam*
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    September 30, 2018 1:30am UTC

    As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

  2. seafoam* seafoam*
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    December 4, 2016 7:18pm UTC
    We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

  3. seafoam* seafoam*
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    December 4, 2016 7:03pm UTC
    I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

  4. seafoam* seafoam*
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    December 4, 2016 6:46pm UTC
    The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
    We find delight in the most loathsome things;
    Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
    And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

  5. seafoam* seafoam*
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    December 4, 2016 6:03pm UTC
    What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?
    ― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

  6. seafoam* seafoam*
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    December 4, 2016 1:23pm UTC

    You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it– it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
    —Charles Baudelaire

  7. seafoam* seafoam*
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    December 3, 2016 5:30pm UTC
    And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself; and in the wasteland of desire your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.

  8. KT_143 KT_143
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    March 29, 2013 3:39pm UTC
    “What strange phenomena we find in a great city,
    all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open.
    Life swarms with innocent monsters.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire

  9. cujo* cujo*
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    February 28, 2013 10:46am UTC
    one should always be drunk
    that's all that matters... but with what?
    with wine, with poetry,
    or with virtue ...as you choose.
    - - - but get drunk. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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